"Apparently students are drawn in by the ‘swagger,’" says Melvin El, president of Better Education Place. "If you are a teacher today and you don’t have any swagger, you are going to struggle to get your students' attention. It turns out a teacher can learn a lot from Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj."

Because the company encourages using hip hop to make education fun, they've deemed rappers worthy of receiving the awards.

Do you think Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne deserve the title, "Teacher of the Year?"

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